Even though the reality that online wagering is now a multi-billion dollar business, and countless thousands of additional bettors around the world log on every day to wager at online gambling halls, there are still millions of new players to the world of online betting who don’t as yet have a clear understanding of a lot of the dialect employed in online wagering, and wagering on athletic event in general. In any case, insight of these ideas is indispensable to comprehending the games and policies of wagering:
ACTION: Any type of bet.
ALL-IN: In poker, all-in means a gambler has deposited all of his chips into the pot. A side pot is set up for the players with additional chips.
ALL-UP: To wager on many horses in the same event.
ANTE: A poker phrase for allocating a specified sum of chips into the pot just beforeeach hand starts.
BRING-IN: A required bet in seven-card stud made by the gambler showing the smallest value card.
BUST: You don’t win; As in twenty-one, when a gambler’s cards are valued over 21.
BUY-IN: The the lowest value of money required to get in a game or tournament.
CALL: As in poker, when a wager is the same as a prior made wager.
CHECK: In poker, to stay in the game and not betting. This is allowed only if no other gamblers wager in that round.
CLOSING A BET: As in spread betting, meaning to lay a wager equal to but opposite of the first bet.
COLUMN BET: To wager on any of the 3 columns of a roulette table.
COME BET: In craps, close to a pass-line wager, but carried out after the shooter has established his point.
COME-OUT ROLL: A crapshooters first roll to achieve a point, or the 1st toss after a point has been established.
COVERALL: A bingo term, symbolizing to cover all the numbers on a bingo sheet.
CRAPPING OUT: In craps, to roll a 2, three or twelve is an automatic loss on the come-out toss.
DAILY DOUBLE: To pick the winners of the first 2 matches of the tournament.
DOWN BET: To wager that the result of an event will be smaller than the smallest end of the quote on a spread bet, also referred to as a "sell".
DOZEN BET: In roulette, to gamble on any of three categories of twelve numbers, one-12, etc.
EACH WAY BET: A athletic event bet, indicating to gamble on a team or player to win or position in a game.
EVEN MONEY BET: A wager that pays out the identical amount as bet, ( one to one ).
EXACTA: gambling that two horses in a race will finish in the exact identical order as the bet – also referred to as a " Perfecta ".
FIVE-NUMBER LINE BET: In roulette, a bet placed on a group of five numbers, such as 1-2-3-0, and 00.
